Tom Waits and Edward Hopper

I have a weird thing where I often inform my parents about what I've blogged about, yet I prohibit them from reading my posts. When I told my father about my poem inspired by Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, instead of him immediately asking "Can I read it?", he offered me one of the thousands of music facts stored in his brain. And now I know that Tom Waits has an album called "Nighthawks at the Diner", whose album artwork is apparently inspired by the Hopper painting. I was intrigued, but my laziness kept me from immediately rushing to the computer and researching it on the Interwebs.

However, lately I've been reacquainting myself with the Tom Waits album "Rain Dogs" and having major flashbacks of the songs playing in our stuffy car while on a long trip to some far away state. Ben and I have happened to love his song "Tango 'Till They're Sore", so I guess I possess a sentimental sort of love for this singer and his husky, sandpaper voice.

I still haven't had the chance to listen to the entire album yet, but I'm intrigued. I'll listen to it this weekend and see if it resembles the painting in any way. I find this so interesting.